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Unemployment data throws 'curveball' at RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... is not a shocker. "Indeed, the growing question market around the resilience of the labour market provides a little more wiggle room for the RBA to cut rates in August even if there's modest upward inflation surprise in next week's inflation report." ...

Inflation slows, but for how long?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
... further progress in battling inflation due to the sticky services inflation. The robust labour market has also limited the wiggle room to absorb any inflation shocks that could arise from the ongoing global tariffs dispute - which could potentially escalate ...

Australians living through protracted period of economic misery: CEDA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
... higher interest rates. But high inflation disproportionately hurts those on lower and fixed incomes with less financial wiggle room to cope with rising prices. Nevertheless, the misery index does clearly illustrate what many of us feel to be true - things ...

Retirees require 3.3% drawdown: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
... providers. Given the current state of the market and low interest rates, Morningstar found that retirees need to create a little wiggle room. "The 4% rule is based on a static withdrawal, and investors who employ this method will have to settle for a ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... dwelling investments in the March quarter - it detracted 0.3 percentage points from growth during the period - should give it wiggle room to lower interest rates if necessary.

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... former NSW Liberal leader); the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms have been amended to give the retail sector some wiggle room; and the FSC and ISA have faced off in court over the make-up of the Fair Work Commission's expert panel on superannuation. ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... politicians. But new European Union (EU) rules mean these illicit industries could provide European politicians with the wiggle room they need to increase spending and hit deficit targets. From September all EU countries will be required to add illegal ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
If three weeks (almost) ago European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi still gave himself a bit of wiggle room not to act (or defer action) - "after having seen the Staff projections that will come out in early June" - he did none of that when ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... threshold - because it "was becoming outdated" -- in favour of quantitative and qualitative measures - gives them more wiggle room to shift policy, one way or the other. "Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle yeah"! The bottomline: Fed taper would proceed ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Failure to reduce the deficit is not an option for the Indian government. Reducing the deficit would give the RBI some wiggle room to cut interest rates and at the same time fend off Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings threat to downgrade India's credit ...
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